Ban (family name)
Ban is a Chinese family name. The transcription stands for the following Chinese characters:
- 班
Well-known namesake
- Ban Zhao 班昭 , Pan Chao (around 45 - 116); Chinese lady-in-waiting and historian
- Ban Chao 班超 , Bān Chāo , Pan Ch'ao (32 - 102), majority name of Zhong Sheng ; Chinese general at the time of the Han dynasty.